Concept of Rights: Conventional Theories of Rights: one-liners notes

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• The Concept of rights is a dynamic concept. • Negative and Positive Right:  • Negative Rights: these rights suggest the sphere where the state is not permitted to enter. • Freedom of thought and expression implies that the state shall not impose any restriction on individual's thought and expression, it will be described as there negative rights. • Positive Rights: prescribe the responsibility of the state in securing rights of individuals. • The state shall provide universal education to promote its citizens' faculty of thoughts and expression, it will be described as their positive rights. • Conventional Theories of Rights:  • (a) Theory of natural rights • (b) Theory of moral rights • (c) Theory of legal rights  • (d) Historical theory of rights and  • (e) Social-welfare theory of rights • Theory of Natural Rights: • Theory of natural rights represents an early expression of the liberal perspective on rights.  • It was very popular in 17th and 19th centuries political thou
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Important Questios on Liberty : Expected Questions

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 1. "The individual is free in the civil state as he was in the state of nature" who said this?

Ans : Rousseau 

 2. "The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time" -

Ans : Jefferson

3. "State must not interfere in the self regarding acts of individual" -

Ans : J.S.  Mill 

4. "Where there is no law, there is no freedom" -

Ans : J.S. Mill 

5. Which one of the following thinkers subscribe to the positive concept of 'Liberty'  ?

Ans : T . H .  Green 

6. "Man is born free, but every where hi is in chain". -

Ans : Rousseau 

7. Determine Green's priority of the following concepts -

Ans : Consciousness, Liberty, Right, State 

8. The classification of human action as self- regarding and other-regarding was made by? 

Ans : J . S .  Mill 

9. Green has defined liberty as - 

Ans : capacity to do thing that are wroth doing. 

10. "If liberty and law do not quarrel, liberty quarrel with itself' - 

Ans : Barker 

11. The positive view of liberty entails -

Ans : social liberty 

12. Which among the following is the greatest support of individual liberty?

Ans : Mill 

13. The best adjustment of liberty and equality can be achieved in a regime of - 

Ans : Democracy socialism 

14. Who among the following has used the concept of "equality of legal personality" to explain the legal dimension of equality? 

Ans : Ernest Barker 

15. The view that there is close relationship between "justice and equality is attribution" to - 

Ans : Socialism 

16. Who wrote "Four Essay On Liberty"? 

Ans : Isaiah Berlin 

17. Who justify 'Liberty' to the extent of eceentricity and oddity of character? 

Ans : J . S . Mill 

18. Who pioneered the idea that distributional equality should concern itself with equalising the people capabilities? 

Ans: John Rawls 

19. In his "principal of social and political Theory" Ernest Barker talk about- 

Ans : Equality of legal personality 

20. John Locke in his "Two Treaties Of Government" revealed about the concept of- 

Ans : Natural Rights 

21. Who among the following is an advocate of naturi liberty? 

Ans : Herbert Spencer 

22. Who describe liberty as "Absence of Restraints"?

Ans : Seeley 

23. One of the following is an advocate of proportional equality - 

Ans : Tawney 

24. The correct chronological order in which the following were published- 

Ans : (a) Leviathan (b) The calculus of consent (c) A Theory Of Justice (d) Modern Political Analysis 

25. The correct chronological order in which the following were published- 

Ans : (a) Theory and Practice of Modern Governments (b) The Power Elite (c) Political Man (d) Comparative Politics : A development approach. 

26. Identify the order in which the following occurred- 

Ans : (a) The Glorious Revolution 

          (b) The American Revolution

          (c) The French Revolution

          (d) The Russian Revolution

27. The correct chronological order in which following were Published- 

Ans : (a) The Law 

          (b) A Discourse on the origin of Inequality 

          (c) Das Capital

           (d) New Humanism : A Menifesto 

28. The following ideas/concept in order in which they appeared - 

Ans : (a) Rule of Law 

          (b) Democratic Centralism 

          (c) Due Process Of Law 

          (d) Feed-back Loop 

29. The correct sequence in the political philosophy of John Locke - 

Ans : (a) Natural Rights 

          (b) State of Nature 

          (c) contract 

          (d) Civil Society 

30. The nation-state concept was the product of the combined influence of the following factors - 

Ans : (a) Renaissance.   (b) Reformation 

          (c) Humanism      (d) Scientific                                                               Development 

31. Legal theory of rights maintains : 

Ans : Rights are created and maintained by the state 

32. "Rights properly so called are creatures of  law". This view is held by - 

Ans : Jeremy Bentham 

  33. "Self is prior to its ends" and "Right is prior to the good" are the principles upheld by - 

Ans : Immanuel Kant 

34. Who has said that "A state is known by the right it maintains"? 

Ans : Harold Laski 

35. "Human consciousness postulates liberty involves rights demand the state" who made this statement- 

Ans : T . H . Green 

36. Liberation view of rights has been advocate by - 

Ans : Robert Nozick 

37. Which belongs to the third generation of rights ? 

Ans : Rights to enjoy a pollution free environment 

38. Human Rights have numerous features, is not the feature of - 

Ans : Nationality 

39. The rights given to the citizens by Laski are in the following order - 

Ans : Right to Work, Right to Education, Right to Choose One's Rule 

40. Negative Liberty means - 

Ans : (a) Freedom as absence of restraints 

          (b) Freedom as self-mastery 

          (c) Freedom as non-interference 

41. Positive Liberty implies - 

Ans : Freedom as autonomy 

42. Who is an advocate of negative liberty? 

Ans : Montesquieu 

43. Who is an advocate of positive liberty? 

Ans : Jean-Jacques Rousseau 

44. The work of JS Mill? 

Ans : (a) On Liberty 

          (b) Utilitarianism 

          (c) The Subjection Of Women 

*Negative Liberty - Adam Smith, Locke, Nozick..

*Positive Liberty - Hegel, Rousseau

*Both - JS Mill 




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